On 3/31/2016 3:44 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote:
If we maintain all these in the applications folder (on mac) LiveCode Indy 7.5.app LiveCode Indy 8.0.0 (dp 16).app LiveCode Indy 8.0 (dp 15).app etc. and be sure to close anyone of them before using another... are we getting ourselves into trouble at all, does this affect the preferences? Of course we would need to "save stack with format version" to run in 7... and features not available 8 disappear e.g. use of new json lib. Any other caveats?
I almost always have at least 3 versions of LC running at once, and sometimes more. You don't need to quit them to alternate. The main caveat is that if you have the same stack open in more than one version, you have to remember which version you saved it in. If you forget, you're apt to overwrite the changes you made in one copy of LC with changes you made in a different copy. The best thing is not to open the same stack in more than one version at a time.
Right now I have a client project open in 7.1.3, a partially-finished test stack open in 7.1.1, and a "learning/tinkering" stack open in 8.0dp16. For a long time I also kept 6.6.5 open for a project that needed it. I sort of use copies of LC the way some people use desktops/spaces.
LC loads preferences on startup. You can change preferences in any version at any time, but whichever one you quit first will be the prefs you get when you launch any other copy of LC. While they are all running, they're just using the prefs they loaded when they launched.
LC 6 has a different prefs file than LC 7 and up, so if you're still running 6 then changing its prefs won't affect higher versions of LC.
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